Why juice with us?
We operate from The Fruit Factory in Stanmer Park, where our team presses, bottles, and pasteurises your fruit safely and efficiently.
Juicing with us means you can:
- Reduce waste – Put surplus fruit to good use.
- Enjoy your own produce – Tasty juice made from your own trees.
- Support a local project – Your fees help fund our scrumping and community work.
- Eco-friendly process – Low food miles, minimal waste, and reused bottles where possible.
- Get hands-on – Join in the juicing process with your children or community. It’s fun, educational, and a great way to connect with where your food comes from.
Juicing your own apples
Fresh juice from your own fruit (some other local apples may be included).
Bring your hand-picked apples to The Fruit Factory, and we’ll wash them, mill them into pulp with our Scratter, and press the juice using our mains-water-operated Apple Press. Fresh juice will be supplied back to you in one-litre plastic bottles, ready to drink or freeze. Fresh juice must be consumed within three days, unless pasteurised or frozen.
Windfall apples? Make your own cider
Apples fallen from the tree are not suitable for fresh juice due to food hygiene concerns, but they can be pressed for cider-making. We’ll press the juice for you to ferment at home. Mixed batches of hand-picked and windfall apples are fine for cider. Cider takes about eight months to mature — plan ahead for next summer.
Pricing
£3.50 per bottle for pasteurised juice in 500ml glass bottles,
£2.50 per bottle for raw, unpasteurised juice in 1ltr plastic bottles (can be frozen). Must be collected on the weekend of pressing.
If you supply your own container:
- For Health and Safety reasons this can be plastic or glass, but remember that while plastic containers can be frozen, glass bottles shouldn’t be put into a freezer.
- It’s your responsibility to sterilise it, either with boiling water or with Milton-type of sterilising tablet/fluid.
- The juice for cider can be put straight into a glass demijohn, or a plastic container.
Exchange fruit for juice
How it works:
- Bring any amount under 60kg
- We weigh your fruit and offer juice in exchange
- You’ll receive already bottled juice (not from your own apples)
- Juice is £3.95 per bottle — your fruit’s value determines how many bottles you get
Label your apples: Hand-picked for juice, Windfalls for cider only.
A great option if you have just a few trees, want to contribute to local food production, and enjoy juice without letting fruit go to waste.
Donate your surplus fruit
No time to juice it yourself? Simply donate your surplus apples, pears, plums, or other fruits to our Scrumped in Sussex project.
You won’t receive bottles in return, but you’ll be helping prevent food waste and supporting a local environmental charity. Every donation helps us create juice and cider that funds our work and supports community food initiatives.
Upcoming: Apple Blossom Day
Celebrate the beauty of the orchard in bloom! Join us for a free, family-friendly afternoon of music, talks, orchard tours, and our famous crumble, cider and juice stall. Come enjoy the blossom, learn about permaculture, and welcome the season together. Sunday 26 April, 1–5pm.
Get Involved
There are various ways you can contribute to our mission and get involved with Brighton Permaculture Trust. Explore the opportunities and join us on the journey towards a more resilient world.